by LoisLane looking for Superman 93 Replies latest jw experiences
When I was a kid we had two in our cong. One was a single lady with two kids (both of them now DF'd). She would literally scream at them all the time.
The other was an old guy who lived in a caravan. He was known to exagerate almost every story he told.
Mum...I appreciated you telling us a little something about the life of some East Tennessee Hillbillies. The story of your dad's youth, when some kids with a white sheet scaring a man in a cemetery, then his wife saying "Well it looks like Ollie's been called to preach" are priceless. Sounds like story's from Mark Twain's time.
Also a little child asking one who professes to be of the anointed, "How are you going to get to heaven?"
When you have the time to write down some of the sayings from your mom of what some people said in church, it would be nice to read also. Are these "sayings" from churches where people are encouraged to freely call out whatever they feel the spirit moves them to say?
Just Lois
Blondie, You are so funny...The Old and sometimes the Bold.
Thank you for responding to this thread.
Your paragraph 4 where you said you had happy memories of meeting and socializing with a few of the GB pre 1935 anointed, was precious.
Paragraph 6 talking about a post 1980 sister, professing to be of the anointed class, talking out loud that she will see God and that she had better knowledge of spiritual things than all of you lesser, poor non-anointed sisters...I bet nobody wanted her in their car group. lol
Just Lois
PS Is your knee pain a little better?
in the 60's they seemed to know their bible well.
Knew a few over the years.
One was a pioneer elder in his 40’s who was very zealous in the ministry. No tea breaks for him and he used to march from door to door very quickly – no “pioneer plod” for him. Seemed to be very serious & the older JWs in the congregation who had been “in the truth” for longer viewed him with some jealousy regarding him as something of a upstart.
Another was a rather eccentric lady whose first expression to any new visitor to the hall was that “you’ll find there is something unusual about me.” It was , of course , that she was anointed. Most humoured her , but I remember one visitor taking the wind out of her sails by asking her why that should be unusual.
A third was an old lady who went back to the pre-30’s and whom most regarded as “genuine anointed.” She would go everywhere on her bike , on the ministry all the time & was a really kind person – fit as a fiddle , mentally & physically well into her 80’s.
A fourth was a middle aged sister who became “anointed” at the same time as her husband. They were a very close couple & he died a few years later. She then quietly stopped partaking and admitted that when her husband confided to her that he was anointed she felt that she had been emotionally committed to it as she wanted to be with him in heaven.
Dozy , You just reminded me of another brother, Ron S. His bro Ray S had parked his car out front on the street in front of the parking lot of our KHall . He had his trunk lid up, getting or putting back in cleaning supplies. A drunk came by and plowed into Ray and decapitated him. Ron started partaking after that until his alcoholism took over his life and he was DF and left the family religion.
Just Lois
"A fourth was a middle aged sister who became “anointed” at the same time as her husband. They were a very close couple & he died a few years later. She then quietly stopped partaking and admitted that when her husband confided to her that he was anointed she felt that she had been emotionally committed to it as she wanted to be with him in heaven."
The entire "anointed", "other sheep" thing is just comic book religion. When it was distinguished as two classes in 1935 my family was there at the convention. They told stories of how everyone was looking at each other and making proclamations of their "other sheep" "earthly hopes" or a few who had a shit eating grin would declare that they were of the 'heavenly' class. Don't recall any stories about people saying "What a croc of baloney!" and walking away, but I'll bet there were a few.
Oh, yeah, they also now had a new cool name, Jehovah's Witnesses !
I think I only ever met two or three of the professed "anointed" during my time in; the first I met as a child and don't really remember what he was like (or if he was even a he, FTM).
The second I met in my 20s, and he seemed like a JW Mr. Rogers; nice enough, but I would have found his company grating after a while (I'm too much of a smartass to be able to tolerate that degree of sweetness in concentrated doses from a grown man).
The third was an elder's wife who suffered from bipolar disorder.
Hi XBEHERE
I agree with you.Born again Christians should have the heavenly hope.But,in the WT society,one will be pressured to perform so as to prove that he is the anointed.Hence we see many examples of those who are behvaing strangely.
Since there is only "one hope" in scripture (Eph 4:4) I still don't really know what to make of the elitist "two hopers".
Maybe for some it's just having drunk too much "koolaid".
Maybe others sense being called to the "one hope", but get hopelessly confused inside the Watchtower "two hope" framework.
(Why does the "true religion" secretly blind its followers to the "Good News" according to Paul, Moses, Isaiah and Psalms?)
